Seems the German teens who planned to backpack acrss Hawaii didn’t have a detailed itinerary of where they planned to stay each night. For that they were put in handcuffs, “strip searched, had full body scans, and were handed green prison uniforms” before being held in rudimentary and filthy holding cells.
“News like that will certainly do wonders for Hawaiian tourism industry,” wrote one Twitter user sarcastically.
According to the US International Trade Administration, travel from Germany is down 28.2% from last year. “Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates in a worst-case scenario, the hit this year from reduced travel and boycotts could total 0.3% of gross domestic product, which would amount to almost $90 billion.”
Source: Daily Mail
A pair of young German travelers were left shocked after they arrived in Hawaii only to be detained and deported due to their loosely planned trip.
Charlotte Pohl, 19, and Maria Lepere, 18, arrived in Honolulu to begin their trip but were grilled extensively by Customs and Border Protection.
The pair planned to explore before traveling on to California and Costa Rica, but they hadn’t booked any accommodation for their five-week stay in Hawaii.
